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07 Jun KITSCH POSTKARTE NO. 1. 1980. SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY BEUYS.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1980
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard from the Originalgrafik - series D editions. The card lists a huge number of artistic supporters for the forthcoming elections called to support the SPD byt Beuys has overprinted the text "KITSCHPOSTKARTE" de facto criticising them as "kitsch" - Beuys of course being a founder member of the rival Gruenen Partie . This card is signed by Beuys at the top and a dedication also in his hand at the side - both in blue ink. VG+.Schellmann nr P 46.

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27 May JOSEPH. C. 1980. SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 21:57h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Konig: Postkartenverlag, n.d. (c. 1980)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. artist's postcard with the title work (felt with the name Josefwritten on it) from 1963 in colour on the front, verso standard postcard design. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen on the front by Beuys. VG+.

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19 May COVER FOR AQ 17 MAGAZINE. 1980.

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Berlin: AQ Verlag, 1980
20 x 20.7cm, 80pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number of this photographic and art journal - here with 143 original contributions from artists mixed up into the booklet and shown in b/w. There are a wide range of artists from Warhol, Le Gac, Feldmann, Polke, Gilbert & George to name just a few.
Boltanski was given the cover and has three other small images in the book (nrs 101 - 103). The cover is a photograph of a jumping hare but taken from a model not an actual animal. VG+. Scare publication. Not in any catalogue raisonne.

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06 May ABENDESSEN MIT ANDY WARHOL UND JOSEPH BEUYS. 1980.

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Munchen: Bernard und Verena Kliuser, 1980
10.9 x 17cm, 1pp typographic invitation card to Frau Dr Hanne Westholt (handwritten) from the gallerists for a private dinner with bBeuys and Warhol. VG+. Clearly scarce.

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04 May MULTIPLIZIERTE KUNST. 1980.

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Ludwigschafen am Rhein: Der Stadtverwaltung Ludwigschafen am Rhein, 1980
20.4 x 10.5, 4pp. Announcement card for a show of object multiples - with Beuys striding towards the camera (La Revoluzioni siamo noi) on the front, internally museum details.

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31 Mar SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS. 1980.

Posted at 21:42h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press. 1980 66 x 93.5cm, blue on white offset lithographic print showing a sketch of a nuclear submarine by John Borg Manduca with the title text "SUB" and the Latin legend "SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS" which is a Latin phrase that means something is universally and for all time true ("from the perspective of the eternal"). Nuclear subs are regarded as being deadly partially because they can stay underwater indefinitely and there is certainly a beauty to their slick form. one slight crease upper right else VG+. Ref.: Drukgrafik 4.80.2. ...

22 Mar JOSEPH BEUYS. 1980.

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Peruga: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, 1980
10.5 x 16.5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card printed red on salmon coloured card. VG+ but a mailed and tipped on address label example.

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18 Mar FILMS BY JUD YALKUT. 1980S.

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Dayton, OH: Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library, n.d. (1980s) 21.5 x 13.8cm, 1pp announcement leaflet printed black on blue for a double feature of jazz films by Yalkut. The films were "Noh Age Video" about the painter Warren James and "Portrait of Pee Wee Russell: - the clarinetist who also painted large scale abstracts. VG....

18 Mar JUD YALKUT EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO. 1980s.

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Cleveland: Spaces Gallery, n.d. (1980s) 12.5 x 17.8cm, 2pp announcement card with a typographic design on both sides printed blue on white for a solo show with Dan Rice and Ronald Gonzalez also exhibiting separately. Yalkut attended on the 10th September for a public discussion of hsi films. VG. ...

18 Mar THE INCREDIBLE WEEKEND LIVES AGAIN. 1980s.

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NYC: Baggie Studios,n.d. (1980s) 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp black on white small typographic poster for a series of performances at this NYC gallery including John Reily, Ira Schneider, and Carl Goldberg's "Video Journal" as well as a film by Yalkut. VG....

18 Mar VIDEO VECTORS DEPOT-SITIONS. c. 1980.

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N.p. (Ludlow, VT?): The Depot Street Gallery, n.d. (c. 1980) 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp black on orange small poster with a design by the artist for the extensive installation by Yalkut which he had installed in a number of different spaces throughout 1980. VG....

18 Mar VIDEO VECTORS FOR AN L-SHAPED ROOM. 1980.

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Cleveland: Spaces, 1980 21.5 x 28cm, 2pp b/w leaflet and floor plan for the extensive installation by Yalkut and on the reverse his lengthy and important statement about the work. VG....